Sentence examples for mere song from inspiring English sources

It's a crude but effective conceit, flattering listeners who believe they're hearing something purer and more passionate than a mere song.

'The words on my father's grave.'" Despite a nice, swaying rhythm, and a comforting melody not that far from Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", the closest a mere song has ever come to sainthood, the record was weak – it all but worshipped weakness, advertised it as a way of life.

To refer to "Crank That" as a mere "song" would probably underplay its multi-platform ubiquity.

He complained that the Jacobean woodwork had been sold for too little, saying that it had been "ruthlessly torn up and sold for a mere song to a passing stranger", and described the reredos as "somewhat tawdry".

Mere songs or albums aren't enough on their own.

Kevin Rowland hasn't written mere songs for his Dexys comeback; rather a West End musical.

What we said about Dexys: "Kevin Rowland hasn't written mere songs for his Dexys comeback; rather a West End musical.

Pieces (these are hardly mere songs) like "Drunk And Staggering Around" and "We Need To Destroy The Soviet Union", are surrealist snapshots of the inside of a febrile imagination, tackling curious and wide-scoping subject matter.

But both were alike in being sonneteers, poets who understood that a sonnet is not a mere sound or song but an explosive device, a compressed drama that starts with a specific image, ignites a complex emotion and opens a universe of feelings and ideas.

The curious Cocaine Man evokes Dury Sr once more, Baxter drawling through a twitchy Class A-narrative, then the trip is over after a mere seven songs.

In truth, the set leans a little too heavily on old glories, and the mere two songs from new album Super Collider disguise a recent shift into more straightforward hard rock.